It would be better to recognize the scam that is going on and start from scratch by lettig two businesses continue: The business of education and the business o

It would be better to recognize the scam that is going on and start from scratch by lettig two businesses continue: The business of education and the business of sports. To enter the education business, you only need to have good grades. To enter the sports business, all you need to do is to play well. Make it independent decisions. Let people who enter the sports business earn a living through salaries not unlike professional sports. Let the sports business be a money making enterprise, with each "sports side" organization (team) making money through TV, radio and apparel, and clearly funneling the money earned to a foundation controlled by the university. Basically, make the teams be the money making aspect of colleges, with the requirement that each team gets rights to use the college's names, colors and symbols. A given person can be a college sports player, a college student, or both. Simple rules can be enacted to let players graduate to professional sports such as NBA or NFL. This would eliminate the need to continue to keep this fake cover of legitimacy. We will then acknowledge what we want as a society: good students and good entertainment. I feel sometimes our Puritan background prevents us from making such moves and keeps us "pure" when we know the current arrangement is prostituted.